CBI files FIR in Group Housing Scam

New Delhi, Apr 1 (UNI) The CBI today filed FIR against five former officials of the registrar office in the multi-crore rupee Group Housing scam in the capital.

The FIR, registered in the court of Special CBI judge Vinod Goyal, named the then Registrar of Cooperative Societies R K Srivastava, the Joint Registrar Krishan Kumar, Assistant Registrar Yogi Raj and three other officials of the registrar office.

They are accused of having misused their official position to have fraudulently revived a group housing society registered in 1983 and taken a plot from the Government, causing loss to the exchequer.

The CBI had registered a case on March 20 last following a High Court directive.

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